Summer 2018 Anime: Official Twitter Hashtags & Pages

Can you already smell the sea? Can you feel the sun on your skin? Have you already had your first slice of watermelon? Well, the only certain thing is that the summer anime season is coming this July! The second season of the new year gives way to Summer 2018 and we are here with our customary list with all the info you need on all the new titles!

Black Clover and My Hero Academia are already part of our weekly anime reviews, so expect Asie to return with both weekly reviews!

Part of Summer 2018 is also the highly-anticipated new season of Attack on Titan. Since it has been in our review list for a while, Marianne will be back with her articles. If you want to refresh your memory, here is her review of the second season:

There are so many anime and we have only so much time. Sometimes it is hard to follow with even a few of the season’s titles. There is so much anime out there and we are only human.

The best way to get that extra bit of obscure otaku knowledge is to visit the official sites, or even better, follow the official hashtags and Twitter pages! Twitter is the industry’s Social Media of choice when it comes to sharing the latest info, and we want you, the amazing otaku readers of MANGA.TOKYO to be the first in the know in the otaku world!

MT is here with our customary seasonal list for all our Social Media savvy readers! Do you want to know all the latest news about the Spring 2018 anime?

100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

Japanese Title: 夢王国と眠れる100人の王子様
Studio: TBD
Air Date: 5 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game

The heroine of this story is invited to a different world called ‘Yume Sekai’ (Dream World). She has to go on a journey, where she frees princes who are sealed away in rings, so they can stop the evil Yumekui, who eat the dreams of people.

Aguu: Genius Dolls

Ai and Machi are dancers. While Ai struggles to be as best as possible, Machi seems to just be a genius when it comes to dancing. One day, Ai finds the reason Machi is good at dancing: Aguu, palm-sized entities who can make someone the best at what they do.

Angels of Death

Japanese Title: 殺戮の天使
Studio: J.C. Staff
Air Date: 6 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game

Ray wakes up locked inside a building without memories. She meets Zack, a strange guy with his whole body in bandages. She asks him to kill her and he promises to grant her wish if she helps him get out of the building. Ray will have to make her way through the floors, from B5 to B2 and on every floor, a different character waits for her.

Angolmois: Genkou Kassenki

Angolmois is a story set in 1274 and is based on a historical manga, that tells the story of the Mongol attacks. Jinzaburo Kuchii is being sent to the exile at Tsushima island and has to fight the Mongols invading the island and he also meets Teruhi who is the daughter of a lord on Tsushima.

Asobi Asobase

Born and raised in Japan, the blonde Olivia can’t speak a word of English. Even though Kasumi looks like a smart girl, wears glasses, and has short hair, she also can’t speak English at all. Hanako is a very bright girl and always wears her hair in pigtails. These are the three middle school girls who form a club where they play Japanese playground games. Prepare the stage for the cutest and funniest comedy!

Attack on Titan Season 3

Japanese Title:進撃の巨人 Season 3
Studio: Wit Studio
Air Date: 23 July
Episodes: 24
Adaptation of Manga

Eren Jaeger swore to wipe out every last Titan, but in a battle for his life he wound up becoming the thing he hates most. With his new powers, he fights for humanity’s freedom facing the monsters that threaten his home. After a bittersweet victory against the Female Titan, Eren finds no time to rest—a horde of Titans is approaching Wall Rose and the battle for humanity continues! (source: Funimation)

Banana Fish

New York. Ash is a guy with outstanding appearance and fighting abilities. The young gang-leader hears the mysterious words ‘Banana Fish’ muttered from one of his men just as he dies. During that time, he also meets the Japanese boy Eiji Okumura, who came to New York as the assistant of a photographer. The two of them start to search for the truth behind the words ‘Banana Fish’…

Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

Muhyo & Roji is a dark fantasy story that follows Toru Muhyo and his assistant Jiro Kusano (nickname Roji), who are in charge of sending evil spirits, who committed a sin, to the other world by making use of Muhyo’s spiritual energy.

Cells at Work!

Japanese Title: はたらく細胞
Studio: David Production
Air Date: 8 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Manga

This is your story. The story of your body. The number of cells in the human body is about 37 trillion. The cells live in a world called the body and today too they are not resting but working happily. Red cells carry oxygen, white cells fight bacteria… And there is also drama with unknown cells. A new anthropomorphic series based on the popular manga Cells at Work! will get an anime soon! It’s the one story anybody can sympathize with, as it could also be the story of your body.

Chio’s School Road

To go to school normally’ is a work of miracles! From a gang running wild on a construction site until sudden urge to pee, there are many problems getting in the way of the below-average high school girl Chio Miyamo. This extreme comedy will finally be turned into an anime!

Dropkick on My Devil!

The devil of the underworld, Jashin-chan, had suddenly been summoned to the human world. Yurine Hanazono, who summoned Jashin-chan, is a university student with a slightly black heart. She is living in a rundown apartment in Jinbou district in Tokyo. Yurine summoned Jashin-chan without knowing how to return her to the underworld. It can’t be helped so they start to live together, but… If the summoner dies, the summoned creature can return, so Jashin-chan is aiming for Yurine’s life…!? Yurine and Jashin-chan’s dangerous cohabitation is quite a comedy!

Fate/Extra: Last Encore – Illustrias Geocentrism

Japanese Title: Fate/EXTRA Last Encore イルステリアス天動説
Studio: Shaft
Air Date: 29 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game

Waking up in a strange virtual world with no recollection of the past, Hakuno finds himself forced to fight for survival in a war he does not understand for a prize beyond value; the opportunity to have one’s wish granted. With only an enigmatic ‘Servant’ by his side, Hakuno Kishinami will have to face both friends and foes in battles to the death in order to not only gain possession of a mysterious object known as the “Holy Grail,” but also to find the answer to the most important question of all: ‘Who am I?’ (Source: Type-Moon Wikia)

Happy Sugar Life

High-schooler Matsuzaka Satou has a reputation for being easy, but one day her lifestyle of sleeping with one boy after another comes to an end. It happens when she meets the child Shio, for whom she is convinced she feels true love for the first time. Satou may seem sweet and innocent, but there is nothing she won’t do to protect their life together, including committing murder. But from where did she acquire the little girl, and how long can their ‘Happy Sugar Life’ together last? (Source: MangaHelpers)

Harukana Receive

Haruka moved from Tokyo to Okinawa during her second year of high school. While she is always cheerful and positive, she has a something that she is conscious of. She is taller than other girls. Meanwhile her same-aged cousin Kanata, who came to pick her up from the airport, has another problem. She gave up her beloved beach volleyball, because she stopped growing too early. However, this uneven pair end up forming a beach volleyball team. There is only one friend you have on this wide sandy coast. In beach volleyball, your partner is more important than anything else, so what kind of play will the two of them show? On the beach of Okinawa, with the burning sun on their necks, the two girls will shine with sweat and passion!

High Score Girl

What is Polygon? Can you eat that? It was back in 1991 when the game boom arrived in Japan and 2D games were all the rage. Anybody from delinquents to geeks to office workers would stop by the games arcade, and that’s where she sat at in her dignified pose. A ’90s arcade romantic comedy’ told through the eyes of the otaku Haruo.

How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord

In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, Sakamoto Takuma is so powerful that he is lauded as the ‘Demon Lord’ by other players. One day, he is summoned to a world outside his own – but with the same appearance he had in the game! There, he meets two girls who both proclaim themselves to be his Summoner. They perform an Enslavement Ritual to turn him into their Summon… but that’s when Takuma’s passive ability activates! Instead, it is the girls who become enslaved! Though Takuma may be the strongest Sorcerer there is, he has no idea how to talk with other people. It is here he makes his choice: to act based on his persona from the game! ‘Amazing? But of course… I am Diablo, the being known and feared as the Demon Lord!’ So begins a tale of adventure with an earth-shakingly powerful Demon Lord (or at least someone who acts like one) taking on another world! (Source: J-Novel Club)

Island

Setsuna is a young man who is stranded on a remote island. The remote island is being teased by the mainland because of its discrepancies about old traditions and endemic diseases. Setsuna is going to unravel mysteries hidden in the world with the island’s popular family Urashima Oguinaya’s girls. It is a magnificent sci-fi story that became a hot topic because of its clever scenario and the numerous sub-plots.

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes (Holmes of Kyoto)

The story is set in a shop for antiques, where the high school student Aoi Mashiro starts working as a part timer because she knows the son of the store owner, Kiyotaka Yagashira. Kiyotaka is often called the ‘Holmes of Teramachi’ because of his sharp mind paired with his gentle manners. Together Aoi and Kiyotaka receive various requests related to antiques from customers.

Lord of Vermilion: Guren no Ou

Tokyo 2030. After the phenomenon called ‘Dai Kyoumei’ (lit. great resonance), young people awaken to unleash the power hidden in the blood, ‘Eiketsu no Utsuwa’. They’re being pulled by each other’s powers to inevitable encounters, communicate their thoughts, sharpen their lives and are inexplicably drawn together into a harsh destiny.

Middle Manager Tonegawa (Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues)

Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa is based on a manga by Nobuyuki Fukumoto & Tensei Hagiwara (story) and Tomoki Miyoshi & Tomohiro Hashimoto (art). It is a spin-off from Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji that makes Yukio Tonegawa into the main character. We follow his worries and problems as a middle manager.

Miss caretaker of Sunohara-sou

Aki Shiina is not being treated like a guy because of his appearance, so to change himself, he moves to Tokyo to go to middle school there and starts living at the Sunohara dormitory. There he ends up being spoilt and sometimes teased by the mischievous and sometimes a bit naughty caretaker of the dormitory, Ayaka Sunohara. On top of that, the other people living in the dormitory are all older girls… There will be many exciting moments in this comedy, which will have you wish for your own caretaker to spoil you.

Phantom in the Twilight

Japanese Title: Phantom in the Twilight
Studio: LIDEN FILMS
Air Date: 10 July
Episodes: ?
Original Anime

A mysterious cafe in London, Café Forbidden, only opens at night and is somehow full of handsome men. The protagonist, a girl who is studying in London, meets the people who work at the cafe and of their special mission.

Planet With

Japanese Title: プラネット・ウィズ
Studio: J.C.Staff
Air Date: 8 July
Episodes: ?
Original Anime

An original mecha story based on a 1074-page-long storyboard by Satoshi Mizukami. A manga adaptation of the story will also start serialization on 28 April in Shonen Gahonsha’s Young King OURs, drawn by Mizukami himself.

Seven Senses of the Re’Union

The group ’Subaru’ is made up of elementary students became a worldwide legend in the MMORPG Union. But then, Asahi dies at the same time she experiences a game over in the game. With that, the game Union was closed and the members of Subaru split up. That was six years ago. When Haruto, who is already a high school student, locks into the new game ‘ReUnion’, he meets his childhood friend Asahi, who was supposed to be dead. Is she a ghost of this electronic world? This is the story of a promise between friends in an online game. Look forward to the story!

Shoujo ☆ Kageki Revue Starlight

At the center of the story are nine girls who are attending a prestigious music school.
Each of them receives a mysterious invitation to an audition that could make all their wishes and dreams come true. And with that, their own version of battle royale begins.
Referring to the main cast as ‘Stars’ is surely justified, seeing how they suddenly became active in different work fields at one time, like voice acting, stage acting, idol actives and more.

Tenrou: Sirius the Jaeger

Japanese Title: 天狼 Sirius the Jaeger
Studio: P.A. Works
Air Date: July 2018
Episodes: ?
Original Anime

Imperial Capital, 1930.
A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station.
They are called the “Jaegers”, who came to hunt vampires.
Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura.
His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires.
Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as “The Arc of Sirius”.

What truth awaits them at the end…?
With eternal affinity and spiral of conspiracy entwine, the highly anticipated action-thriller anime begins!

The Badminton play of Ayano Hanesaki! (HANEBADO!)

Hanebado! is following the story of the girls in the badminton club at prefectural Kitakomachi High School. The two main characters are first-year Ayano Hanesaki, who has excellent reflexes but dodges badminton, and Nagisa, who is a third-year student and aims to become Japan’s No.1 and practices very hard. Besides Ayano and Nagisa Aragaki are fellow friends and their coach, who supports the club, as well as rivals filled with individuality.

The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar

Yuuto Suoh is a boy from our time getting lost in the world of Yggdrasil when it is on the brink of war. In this world, only the fittest survive and many clans of warriors are fighting for power. Thanks to his modern knowledge he climbs up the ranks soon and with only 16 years of age he gets to lead a troop of several thousand people. With a group of magic-wielding warrior maidens known as Einherjar who have pledged him loyalty he somehow became the king of another world!

The Thousand Noble Musketeers

Japanese Title: 千銃士
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Air Date: 3 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game

‘Only my absolutely nobleness belongs to you.’
The era after which the whole world was devastated by nuclear war.
People lived in a world under absolute rule by the World Empire where everything was controlled and deprived of liberty.
But, while it was forbidden to have any military force, there was one group resisting and secretly kept fighting to defeat the dictatorship of the World Empire.
They challenge the fight with ‘antique guns’ that were left intact as pieces of art.
These antique guns are the homes for souls of late warriors that incarnate and are called ‘Musketeers’.
Their absolute nobleness and splendid fighting skills bring hope to the people of the world.
The days of the young Musketeers are shining lively.
It is the story of beautiful young people fighting in pursuit of their own ‘absolute nobleness’ while they laugh, cry, are pleased, get lost and hurt.
What are we fighting for and what should we protect?
Be Noble!

Tsukumogami For Rent

Japanese Title: つくもがみ貸します
Studio: Telecom Animation Film
Air Date: 23 July
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Novel

The story takes place at a rental shop in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) during the Edo period. Among the items available to rent are Japanese spirits called ‘tsukumogami’, which are things which become sentient after 100 years of use. The siblings Kiyoji and Obeni are the stars of the story.

Summer 2018 – Happy New Anime Season

If you have trouble finding the official pages or Twitter handles for your favorite anime, let us know in the comments (you can find them on the top)! Join us in our Facebook group and let’s talk about our favorite series from the new season!!

And, as we do every season, MANGA.TOKYO will cover 15 titles for our weekly anime reviews. Our writers will also see every first episode and write their first impressions!

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